Sitges hits the ripe old age of 50

05/10/2017 - The Catalonia-based Sitges Fantastic Film Festival kicks off today, 5 October, celebrating half a century of thrilling audiences by offering a monstrous programme of 225 films

Marrowbone by Sergio G Sánchez

The great Guillermo del Toro will today open the 50th edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in the Catalan coastal city, with The Shape of Water (which was victorious at the most recent Venice Film Festival). Those attending the gathering, an unmissable pilgrimage for any genre-film buff, will be able to fill their boots until Sunday 15 October thanks to a gigantic programme made up of 225 titles scattered across 16 different sections.

The festival is cementing its ties with the film industry through Sitges Pitchbox 2017, an international pitching event set to unspool tomorrow, and which has selected seven of the 150 projects sent in following the call for submissions: Biopunk by Liam Garvo (UK), Conexo by Carlos García (Spain), Matilda Corksrew by Victor Jaquier (France), Pochinok by Daniel M Caneiro (Spain), Restore Point by Robert Hloz (Czech Republic), Teo by Víctor Manuel Checa (Peru) and The Monster Within by Rodrigo Susarte (Chile). The winner of the Sitges Pitchbox Award will receive €6,000, intended to go towards the development of their project.

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